Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sigmund Freud
- About
- 1856-1939
- Austrian Neurologist
- Founder of psychanalytic
movement
- Believed in the unconscious mind and
the power it holds
- Components of Mind
- Conscious
- top 1/7th
- awareness
- Unconscious
- 6/7th
- secret wishes, fears, trauma are hidden
- Pre-Conscious
- boundary
- coded ideas of our unconscious thoughts slip out
but we're protected by the symbolism
- Components of
Personality
- Id
- unconscious; pleasure principle
- Ego
- keeps balance between Id and Superego
- reality principle
- Superego
- moral voice
- Defence Mechanisms
- Coping strategies
- Repression
- block out unwanted/painful
memories
- Denial
- don't acknowledge something
that happened
- Projection
- put ones own unconscious
qualities onto others
- Psychosexual Theory
- Oral Stage (0-1)
- Anal Stage (2-3)
- Phallic Stage (3-6)
- Latent Stage (6-11)
- Genital Stage (11+)
- Criticisms
- hard to test
- some concepts Freud discussed
cannot be observed
- seen as sexist by some
feminists
- only observed adults, no kids